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David Szalay

The author of Flesh on moral murkiness, physical agency, and why the body knows things the mind doesn't
Adam Biles

Terrence Malick’s Disciples

Why the auteur is the most influential director in Hollywood
Bilge Ebiri

When AI Speaks for the Dead

A murder victim recently addressed a defendant with the help of AI. What are the limits of our new reality?
Patricia J. Williams

My First Book Outed Me

How writing poems changed the course of my life
Carl Phillips

Searching for Seamus Heaney

What I found when I resolved to read him
Elisa Gonzalez


Thomas Pynchon Is Angry

In Shadow Ticket, the novelist takes on America’s indifference to history
Richard Beck

The Unfolding of Time in Paint

My encounters with Joan Mitchell's panels
Rachel Cohen
Sepia toned photograph showing painter Joan Mitchell behind a canvas in her studio
Dan Fox as a child with his nain, or grandmother, in the chicken-filled yard of Siambr Wen, near Llanrwst, North Wales, UK

What Happened When I Began to Speak Welsh

By learning my family's language, I hoped to join their conversation.
Dan Fox
Black-and-white illustration of a therapy couch

The Analytic Lyric

Nine poets in conversation with psychoanalysis

An Annie Ernaux essay, only in print

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Memoir

Emily Hoffman

House

Emily Hoffman